“The bottom line is Andrew is out indefinitely,” DiLeo said. “We don’t know when he’ll be back. Only Andrew can answer that question — his body can answer that question. Basically there are no timelines.”

Ugh.

The details of the medical diagnosis are not good. Not good at all.

All four doctors have examined Bynum, studied the MRIs and come to the same conclusion: bilateral bone bruises and weakened cartilage in both knees. That’s exactly what general manager Tony DiLeo revealed on Saturday in an impromptu press conference.

This is different than the report that came out last week — from a doctor not involved in the diagnosis and who has not seen the MRIs — that called for surgery. That report was pure speculation, what the Sixers gave Saturday were facts. Just not pleasant ones.

Bynum is doing swimming and other low-impact conditioning. But there will need to be some on-court work after that.

And as Philly fans start to pile on Bynum, they should know that he will play through pain — he put off knee surgery in 2010 to be part of the Lakers title run, then in 2011 again played through a bone bruise to help the Lakers through 10 playoff games. He will play through pain.

But not this, and not right now.

And for a Philly team that gambled big on him, that sold a lot of season tickets based on his play, this is not good.

And we haven’t even gotten to the part where Bynum is a free agent next summer and both Philadelphia and other team are going to offer him his next contract, figuring out the money and years they should put on the table.

That is a whole new risk, but one based in part on what is going on now.

1. Were doing just fine without him so far
2. He’s really out of sight out of mind right now. If we had a losing record and were playing poorly, that’d be a different story.
3. No one’s piling on him yet, but that could change.
4. We were clamoring for Iggy to be traded for years so we don’t care that we really have nothing to show for it on the court. That contract had to go.
5. His knee issues and inability to get on the court means no one will give him a big contract after the season and there wont be much competition to keep him in Philly, and it could be less money than was expected to keep him.

Iggy’s contract had to go but you replaced it with an equally large contract only to get NOTHING to show for it? I’m really not trying to troll you but you are rationalizing losing your best player only to get another player that hasn’t played yet and isn’t going to in the foreseeable future.

EVERYONE will give him a big contract regardless of his glass knees. He’s 7′ tall, see also: Robin Lopez contract.

Ummm… Step away from the bong. He put off surgery at the beginning of the summer and instead chose to have surgery at the end of the summer, just in time to miss the first quarter of the regular season…. Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story.

As a Philly fan myself, I disagree with most of what you have to say. I recommend speaking for yourself…as opposed to grouping the rest of us in your way of thinking. This isn’t a “we” thing….that is unless you’re talking about firing Andy Reid…we all want that sh*t.

I don’t seem to recall this being such a big gamble at the time of the deal. All of this injury BS started the first day of training camp. It’s not like we were saying no to Jackson so we could sign D’Antoni or anything. Looking at it now it looks like we got bogus goods for what we gave up, Iggy included. I don’t know what recourse Philly has if it is, but it sure seems dirty.

Now I will call you on it. Philly fans are still not outraged and not piling on. Please don’t create a gals narrative. We are disappointed but still respect the fact that we took a shot for once on a star player and still happy that Iggy is gone.

@tfoz Philly knew he was injury prone when they made the trade. It’s not like Bynum was an iron man that the Lakers were concealing an injury on. Everyone in the league and their mother knew that Bynum has bad knees.

Not like this, though. This story keeps getting worse and worse. I think he has a degenerative condition or something. Theres no way they would have made that deal if they knew he wouldnt be able to play this year. They gave up a lot for this guy, and I’m mot evn talking about Iguodala.

The onus is on the team’s doctors and whether the GM/Owner is willing to listen.

Teams typically don’t falsify medical records and provide bad info. Even with all the info provided, teams still individually perform their own exams and take their own images and have their own doctors provide an opinion.

eventhorizon04 - Nov 25, 2012 at 12:40 AM

Bynum has only played in over 60% of games in a season once in the past 5 years.

Its a risk the sixers needed to take. If the Sixers kept trying to build around Iggy they were going to be another 7 and 8 seed in the playoffs, and stay that way for a long time. They would never be able to get a top pick in the draft and can’t rebuild their team through the draft, and then would have to rely on free agency. Problem with free agency is no free agent wants to come to Philadelphia because their are no perks or attractions (such as being able to play with a superstar or be a part of a championship contender).

At least with Bynum the Sixers at least have/had the possible oppurtunity of retaining the second best center in the league and making the Sixers relevant in Philadelphia again. They could be the second or third best team in the East with the development of Holiday and Turner, and bringing in a bunch of perimeter shooters to space the floor for Bynum to work with. It also helped the possibility of Collin’s protect the paint scheme very effective with guys like Thad Young, Lavoy Allen, Spencer hawes, and EVEN KWAME BROWN helping out Bynum in the paint.

The Sixers knew what they were doing. They brought in the right personel to set up a potentially succesful season. If Bynum doesn’t play at least every Sixers fan can say that they at least went down swinging.

So now were going to take an opportunity to make fun of his afro? That so soft, dude. I thought it was only the girls who were concered about the way somebody else’s hair looks on television. They have another word for that, but I don’t want to insult any other groups of people out there, but I think you know which word I’m thinking of at this moment.